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Ukrainian Strike Drone Crashes in Finland With Live Warhead
Police

Ukrainian Strike Drone Crashes in Finland With Live Warhead

A Ukrainian long-range attack drone landed in Finnish territory on Sunday morning with its warhead still intact. Finnish police found it, cordoned off the area, and detonated it in a controlled explosion. No one was hurt. But the incident is not routine, and the region is paying close attention. Two drones came down in southeastern…

Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low
Ukraine

Rheinmetall CEO Calls Ukraine’s Drones ‘Lego’ Built by ‘Housewives.’ Zelensky Says That CEO Sounds Promotable.

Armin Papperger, Chairman and CEO of Rheinmetall AG, dismissed Ukraine’s drone program as kitchen-table hobbyism in an interview with The Atlantic published Friday, March 28. “They have 3D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones,” Papperger told the magazine. “This is not innovation.” He compared Ukraine’s drone development to playing “with Lego”…

Two Israeli Firms Are Building a Drone Nav System Without GPS
Ukraine

Drone Navigation Is Getting a Quantum Upgrade

You’ve felt it before. You’re flying your Mavic or your Mini over a trail, everything looks great, and then the signal drops. Your drone hovers in place, looking confused, waiting for satellites to tell it where it is. Now imagine that problem on a military drone in Ukraine, where the other side is actively trying…

Russia Deploys Ring-Wing “Kometa” Drones Over Ukraine As Experimental Design Triples Range
Ukraine

Russia Plans to Train 70,000 Drone Specialists in 2026

Russia is scaling its drone warfare program at a pace that should get the attention of anyone watching the Ukraine conflict. Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Anatoly Kontsevoy announced at a Federation Council meeting that the Russian Armed Forces plan to train more than 70,000 drone specialists this year, according to Voennoedelo.…

ACSL SOTEN Gets SAMO: A 64MP Thermal Payload Built for Operators Who Can't Use DJI
ACSL

ACSL SOTEN Gets SAMO: A 64MP Thermal Payload Built for Operators Who Can’t Use DJI

ACSL is actively promoting SAMO, its dual optical-thermal swappable payload for the SOTEN drone, as the Japan-made platform pushes deeper into U.S. public safety and inspection markets. Built around Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron 640R module, SAMO pairs a 64-megapixel visible camera with a 640×512 radiometric Boson thermal sensor — all in an NDAA-compliant, ITAR-free package. Teledyne…

Wing Sets the Record Straight on Five Drone Delivery Myths
FAA

Wing Sets the Record Straight on Five Drone Delivery Myths

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, published a five-point myth-busting campaign on LinkedIn this week, pushing back on the most common misconceptions about commercial drone delivery. The post drew over 100 reactions and arrived the same week Wing sponsored the networking area at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf, putting these arguments in front of European regulators…

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